Hacker News: antaviana

New comment by antaviana in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

antaviana — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:55:16 +0000

Public Folders is what makes us stick with the old Outlook client. For 25 years Public Folder has been a simple drag and drop, hierarchical archive system for communications with clients and vendors at team level.

New comment by antaviana in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

antaviana — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:15:36 +0000

It seems we now have a new product category, HaaS, Hallucination as a Service.

New comment by antaviana in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

antaviana — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:10:29 +0000

Will it be possible to pay the UK VAT returns with this new payment platform? Paying the UK VAT return with a credit card from Spain does not work because there is an address verification which is not possible because Spain's credit cards do not share customer address information, so we need to use wire transfer instead, which has a higher transaction cost.

New comment by antaviana in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

antaviana — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:00:31 +0000

My greatest concern about Mac hardware is that they are perfectly operational by the time software-driven programmed obsolescence comes its way, even when it is a nice problem to have. I have 3 iMacs 27 (2019) which have a gorgeous display, but the lack of software updates to the OS effectively bricks them via enterprise conditional access rules or with the ongoing drop of legacy OS support by key apps. This programmed obsolescence feels as a huge resource waste. It should not be allowed, if anything for environmental reasons.

New comment by antaviana in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

antaviana — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:21:16 +0000

How do you pay for data exfiltration ransoms or to purchase stolen data? My take is that if you remove crypto, you will hamper greatly these transactions.

New comment by antaviana in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

antaviana — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:21:38 +0000

Crypto has single handedly created a very large malware industry and has also made information security a massive industry.

Ban crypto and both industries will become way, way smaller.

New comment by antaviana in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

antaviana — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:32:44 +0000

This is what hapenned 10 years ago, when machine translation entered the professional translation business. Post-editing the translation was often slower than human translating sentences from scratch. Now nearly the whole industry is post-editing machine translations, and there is more and more content that is not even post-edited.

New comment by antaviana in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

antaviana — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:12:22 +0000

When I started working at a time with no mobiles and no remote, calling or being called to the office for personal reasons was seen with disrespect from your coworkers. At work you were supposed to be working, and outside of work you were supposed not to be working. Pretty much as in the Severance series, but without the forgetting. With mobiles and connectivity, everything changed, I'm unsure if for better. Now you can work 24/7 or slack all day as if there were no tomorrow.

New comment by antaviana in "Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?"

antaviana — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:08:40 +0000

I see you use Stripe. They have this Adaptative Pricing feature where you get paid in EUR and customer pays in their own currency. It has some drawbacks (fewer payment methods and higher cost perception for customer due to Stripe’s upfront currency exchange comission), but it can do the trick.

New comment by antaviana in "Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?"

antaviana — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:17:36 +0000

Why do you have a 14-day money back guarantee instead of a 30-day free trial?

My perception (although I never tried it) is that it reduces the number of people actually trying it and avoids that you have to still pay for the payment platform fee when there is a refund, plus I presume there is also some dedication needed for handling the refund itself.

I speculate that there might be a sweet spot between the impulse purchase and the price level where you do not bother to ask for a refund, even if the tool does not work for you, but still it is counterintuitive for me why not to reach as many potential users as possible at a nearly zero marginal cost and sort of pray for conversion with a much higher user base.

In other words, at this price range with no recurring income, what is the percentage of users who actually to ask for a refund? Is it very low?

New comment by antaviana in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

antaviana — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:42:17 +0000

Am I the only one using Microsoft Money Sunset Edition? Granted I cannot connect to banks and get live quotes, but I think it is well done and has a lot of features.

New comment by antaviana in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

antaviana — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:54:53 +0000

Eventually, they’ll be fine. Wolkswagen was established by the German nazi regime and it has been fine for a long time in spite of its past.

New comment by antaviana in "Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today"

antaviana — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:26:07 +0000

I loved their old tagline: “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”.

New comment by antaviana in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

antaviana — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:48:12 +0000

I would dare to say that all business apps start as an Excel sheet (or Google Sheet) and after the usefulness of data collection and data arrangement/presentation is validated (often long after the usefulness is validated) they eventually become a full-fledged business web app.

New comment by antaviana in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

antaviana — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:50:21 +0000

If we are talking about real time phishing then sending a code to the email is as secure as a 2FA authentication with password and Google Authenticator code.

New comment by antaviana in "20 years working on the same software product"

antaviana — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:59:46 +0000

I believe it is in this interview from 1996 where I saw Bill Gates saying the same thing about Microsoft products, he saw them as subscriptions. It’s a long but interesting interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM

New comment by antaviana in "Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley"

antaviana — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:40:34 +0000

It seems there is the opportunity to disrupt that market, so that tech companies can pay property owners directly, without the middlemen.

New comment by antaviana in "Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO"

antaviana — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:12:01 +0000

Actually, there is a restaurant where I go sometimes that when I pay cash instead of with a credit card, the owner gets so elated that rounds down the amount to pay in some 3-7%. The countertip I guess.

New comment by antaviana in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

antaviana — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:46:37 +0000

The pricing page says the Free version collects anonymous data. I understand the paid versions don’t. Does it say anywhere the kind of anonymous data that is collected in the Free version?

New comment by antaviana in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?"

antaviana — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:03:25 +0000

I thought this was about getting the root password by burning the sysadmin with a cigarette lighter (https://xkcd.com/538/)